Innovation and Employment: Evidence from Italian Microdata

Employment, innovation, and productivity: evidence from Italian microdata

Italian manufacturing firms have been losing ground with respect to many of their European competitors. This article presents some empirical evidence on the effects of innovation on employment growth and therefore on firms’ productivity with the goal of understanding the roots of such poor performance. We use firm level data from the last three surveys on Italian manufacturing firms conducted b...

Employment effect of innovation: microdata evidence from Bangladesh and Pakistan

Business Cycles and Divorce: Evidence from Microdata.

We use individual-level data to show that divorce is pro-cyclical on average, a finding robust to the inclusion of a wide range of controls. Pro-cyclical divorce is concentrated among women who married young and/or do not have a college degree.

Changing Patterns of Ethnic Minority Self-Employment in Britain: Evidence from Census Microdata

Changing Patterns of Ethnic Minority Self-Employment in Britain: Evidence from Census Microdata The over-representation of certain ethnic minority and immigrant groups in self-employment is, in common with other developed countries, a notable feature of the UK labour market. Compared to substantial growth in self-employment in the 1980s, the 1990s saw overall selfemployment rates plateau. Despi...

What Determines Corruption? International Evidence from Microdata

This paper uses a microlevel data set from 49 countries to create a direct measure of corruption, which portrays the extent of bribery as revealed by individuals who live in those countries. In addition, it investigates the determinants of being asked for a bribe at the individual level. The results show that both personal and country characteristics determine the risk of exposure to bribery. E...